Senior Site Reliability Engineer

You'll be one of two infrastructure and reliability specialists on the Data Replication team, a full-stack product team running millions of sync jobs a week that power thousands of data use cases across multiple regions and clouds. You'll build and maintain the infrastructure, set reliability standards, drive down incidents, and make it easier and safer for engineers to ship. When the fix belongs in the application, you'll ship it there too. You're equally comfortable in a Terraform file, a Kubernetes cluster, a service's codebase, and a postmortem doc. We expect engineers here to actively use AI as a force multiplier: agentic tools to automate toil, augment incident response, and build smarter internal tooling. If you're not already doing this, you should be excited to start. We care as much about how you work as what you build. Trust, directness, and craftsmanship matter here.

What You'll Do:

• Own the infrastructure underpinning the Data Replication platform: Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, networking, and cloud resource configuration across AWS and GCP.

• Work across the stack: ship backend application changes alongside product engineers, not just the infrastructure underneath them.

• Improve performance and efficiency at scale, from bursty job scheduling to right-sizing compute.

• Help us ship safely into customer-managed environments, where Airbyte runs in infrastructure we don't control.

• Evolve observability, alerting, and anomaly detection, with an eye toward LLM automation.

• Build AI-augmented release and internal tooling: canary deployments, progressive rollouts, automated release qualification, and rollback automation.

• Set the infrastructure bar for the team: build self-serve tooling, write runbooks, and coach engineers to own more of their stack.

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.

• Hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform in production environments.

• Deep experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and on-call operations.

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline ownership and developer tooling.

• Experience shipping changes to backend services in [language], not only infrastructure code, and the appetite to do more of it.

• Strong design judgment, and the confidence to challenge infrastructure decisions with data.

• Fluency with AI tools: LLMs and agentic frameworks to automate, debug faster, and reduce toil.

• A startup-ready mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and owning problems end to end.

• Data pipelines, replication systems, or ETL/ELT platforms.

• Control plane / data plane architectures or internal developer platforms.

• Shipping software customers run in their own environments (Helm charts, upgrade paths, varied configurations).

• Experience with Airbyte, CDKs, or connector-based architectures.

• Onsite 4 days/week in San Francisco, CA

At Airbyte, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, trusted, and empowered to grow. Our market-leading Total Rewards package is designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. Our benefits and perks include:

• Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually, and public holidays in line with provincial employment standards

• Comprehensive health coverage - extended health benefits on top of provincial public healthcare

• Virtual healthcare - access to doctors and other care providers online, so you can get care without waiting

• Retirement savings - a group retirement savings plan to help you build for the future

• Statutory protections - Canada/Québec Pension Plan, Employment Insurance and workers' compensation coverage

• Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement

If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don't meet all of the requirements!

We are not accepting agency submissions or recruiting firm support for this role. Unsolicited resumes will not be considered.

Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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